A letter from Santa can brighten a child's Christmas.
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As the Christmas season approaches, many children enjoy sending a letter to Santa Claus. You can help make a child's Christmas more enjoyable by starting your own Santa letter writing business. Set up a system through which parents can contact you and give you particulars on what their child wants for Christmas. You'll mail back a letter from Santa Claus that goes directly to the child.
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Register your business with the local government business office to get a business certificate. This will allow you to open a bank account to accept payments in check form or online, and it will also allow you to open a post office box in your company name. You will also need the business certificate to file income tax on your business each year.
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Rent a post office box to use as a return address on your Santa letters. You want to avoid giving your home address as a return address if you are sending letters to strangers.
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Develop a price per letter for your Santa letters. Roll all costs into your price, including postage, so you present one price per letter. Research other Santa letter services to find out what the going rate is for a Santa letter, and keep your pricing competitive based on that information.
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Create multiple letter templates to be used on Christmas stationery. If children are in one home, or if there are several children from the same neighborhood, you will want each child to feel as though he's received a personalized letter. Create between 15 and 20 templates to use for your letters. When creating your templates on a word processor, leave spaces where you will be able to input personal information such as the child's name, one gift she wants for Christmas and the city she lives in.
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Advertise your service on the Internet through the free social networking sites and by posting on message boards that parents use. You may also want to invest in display advertising in your local newspaper or, if you can afford it, in a national parenting magazine.
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Include a deadline date of December 1 in your advertisement, and let parents know the last letters will be mailed by December 8. This allows plenty of time for parents to get their requests to you, and gives the mail plenty of time to reach the children even during the busy holiday season.
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Address the envelope for Santa's letter to the child, make the return address the North Pole, put Christmas stickers on the envelope and create a postmark that will make it appear the letter came from the North Pole. To create the North Pole postmark, use a red circle graphic with a white interior and print "North Pole" inside the circle in green. The graphic can be on a sticker or can be printed directly on the envelope.
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Mail the letter to the child in a larger envelope addressed to the parents. The parents can then get the letter to the child. Be sure you advise parents before they purchase your service that this is how you will be sending the letters.
Things NeededGeorge N. Root III began writing professionally in 1985. His publishing credits include a weekly column in the "Lockport Union Sun and Journal" along with the "Spectrum," the "Niagara Falls Gazette," "Tonawanda News," "Watertown Daily News" and the "Buffalo News." Root has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
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